[Capdist-auditions] ENCHANTED APRIL - SCP

[LWAndruski at aol.com]

Auditions for Matthew  Barber’s romantic  comedy Enchanted  April will be 
held on  Tuesday, November 15 and Thursday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the SCP 
Playhouse, 12 S. Church  Street, Schenectady, NY.  Registration for auditions 
begins at 7:00 p.m. each night.     
With the prospect of  another dreary April in 1922, two frustrated (and some 
might say) Desperate  London Housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a 
holiday away from their  bleak marriages. They recruit two very different 
English woman to share the cost  and the experience. There among the wisteria 
blossoms and Mediterranean  sunshine, all four bloom again - rediscovering 
themselves in ways that they -  and we - could never have suspected. 

CHARACTERS 

LOTTY  WILTON, 30, a Hempstead  Housewife. Her essence is of deep sadness and 
withering valiance, from which  genuine hope spontaneously and regularly 
bursts forth, leaving her endlessly  off-balance. 

ROSE  ARNOTT, 38, a Hempstead  Housewife. Referred to by observers as a 
"disappointed Madonna," Rose is spare  to the point of severity. She does her best 
to accept her life with grace, but  her face reveals the desperation her 
strict devoutness tries to  hinder. 

CAROLINE  BRAMBLE, 25, a socialite.  Well known as the life of the party, her 
youthfulness shines through a weary  air. Aloof to the point of snobbery, she 
thinks she requires isolation over  companionship, but is probably wrong. 

MRS.  GRAVES, 70's, a London  matron. A stalwart representative of the 
Victorian era, she is obsessively  suspicious of these modern times. She maintains 
an unwavering sense of propriety  and repression. 
MALLERSH  WILTON, 32, a solicitor.  He believes his image to be one of 
premature wisdom, a misconception redeemed  somewhat by a deeper vein of abject 
terror. 

FREDERICK  ARNOTT, 45, a writer. A  jovial, spirited individual who enjoys 
the success of his "historical romances,"  he is at odds with his wife's staid 
reserve. 

ANTHONY  WILDING, 25, an artist.  Dashing, cultured, and unpretentiously 
charming, he seems unaffected by the  fixations of society. 

COSTANZA, 60s, an Italian  housekeeper. Painfully impatient with these crazy 
English women. Speaks only in  Italian. 
Production dates are January  27-29 and February  1-5, 2006.  Perusal scripts 
are available.  For more information, contact the  director at 377-7943. 

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